Author Steve Sterns, poet Jay Rogoff, and author & historian Colin Wells are coming to venues around the park to read from their recent work. Stern comes to Red Fox Books on August 26th, Wells will speak at The Grange Hall in Whallonsburg on September 16th, and Rogoff will read at the Saratoga Arts Center on September 26th. 

All Events are FREE and open to the public 

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The Adirondack Center for Writing presents its annual day-long publishing conference, Paths to Publishing, Saturday, October 2, 2010. This year, held at the lovely Great Camp Sagamore in Raquette Lake, ACW brings legendary literary agent and author BETSY LERNER to lead THREE workshops on how to get your work polished for publication.

  ACW also brings Jeffrey Lependorf from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses who will give advice on how to build a national audience from the comfort of your Adirondack home using virtual touring and online social media. Finally we have asked Gary Van Riper of the Adirondack Kids series to lead you through the process of self-publishing.

   The cost for the daylong event is $69 for ACW members and $79 for nonmembers.

   To download the full schedule, click here: http://www.adirondackcenterforwriting.org/userfiles/docs/acw_back[1].pdf
  
   Contact ACW for more information or to register, acwevents@gmail.com or 518-327-6278.

   To take the fullest possible advantage of this extraordinary program, participants are encouraged to email their first pages, query letters, and titles to ACW, acwevents@gmail.com. All email submissions must be received no later than September 30. 

The Adirondack Center for Writing presents,

Out of the Dark and Onto the Page: An Intensive Daylong MEMOIR Writing Workshop, Saturday, October 16, 2010 at the Northwoods Inn in Lake Placid.  

The day includes workshops such as Memoir as Mystery: A Workshop and Discussion with Paul Pines. This approach to memoir writing emphasizes some of the same elements present in the best mystery writing, where there is a clear promise of discovery is present from the opening lines and the structure is aligned to its unfolding. 

Also, Open the Door and Invite the Reader In with Bibi Wein. Memoir has plot and this is every bit as important in this genre as it is in fiction. We will discuss beginnings, and finding the best starting point to bring the reader into your story.

The last workshop is titled, Life Lines - Writing Memoir with Mary Sanders Shartle.  Have your family and friends been saying 'Write that story down before it's lost forever'?” In telling our stories we are creating a written legacy of a family, community, culture or landscape that may well not exist 50-100 years from now. 

The cost is $59 for ACW members and $69 for nonmembers (lunch is included)